Archives for July, 2009

• Sony watches as its execs leave for social gaming startup, Detonator Games
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 31st, 2009

• Apperian bags $1 Million for its iPhone apps
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 31st, 2009

• Redial 50 iPhone app now for 99 cents: Because Addiction is easy if it comes cheap!
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 30th, 2009

• Digitalbloom: Your place to buy artwork for almost any screen
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 30th, 2009

• China plans to make it big with iPhone copy.. oops it’s very Original tPhone!
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 28th, 2009

• Sprint makes news by acquiring Virgin Mobile, has eyes on making it big in prepaid market
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 28th, 2009

• Convert your PDF files to Word Documents with Adreamsoft convertor
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 28th, 2009

• IBM pockets SPSS for $1.2 Billion
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 28th, 2009

• Mixamo raises $4 Million for its 3D game animation technology
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 28th, 2009

• Ben Darnell quits Google Reader, jumps to FriendFeed
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 28th, 2009

• Space Pencil draws in $2.8 Million in funding, yet to come out of stealth
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 28th, 2009

• Verizon extends agreement with Boingo, to provide customers with free WiFi access for another four years
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 28th, 2009

• Blekko raises $11.5 Million, perhaps this round will push it out of stealth
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 28th, 2009

• Google to hand back its stakes in AOL as Time Warner buys them back
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• OpenSports bags $4Million in fourth round, gives 20% stakes to FoxSports at $6 Million
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• Google giving away 30 Sony e-book readers. We need more people to use Google Books Search!
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• ClickFuel partners with Ifbyphone to Help Clients Track Phone Calls From Online Ad Campaigns
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• Apple – Toshiba connection. Toshiba pushing the accelerator on Flash Memory chips production
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• Friendster for sale, anyone with a few million dollars to buy it?
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• Apple might launch its tablet by September, says Financial Times
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• Amazon’s investments in a diagram, a picture does speak a thousand words and an equal number of blog posts!
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• AT&T lifts barriers on 4Chan.. talk about utter confusion
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• Spotify releases its app to stream music on iPhone
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• Adgregate Markets joins hands with Linkstorm Partners to bring advertisers ShopAds
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 27th, 2009

• Recommend friends on FriendFeed, the latest in features
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 26th, 2009

• 4chan gets an axe as AT&T bans it
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 26th, 2009

• Convert Web Pages to PDF with HTML to PDF Converter
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 26th, 2009

• Offender Locator, the iPhone App that lets you know what offender is living in your locality
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 26th, 2009

• Facebook continues to nibble Twitter like features, introduces its own ‘Follow’ feature
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 26th, 2009

• Another iPhone app makes it big, F.A.S.T bags $1 Million in jus over a month
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 25th, 2009

• FiredNetwork removes confusion with the name, changes it to FiredUpNetwork
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 25th, 2009

• Need tweets on a clock? Check out TimeTweets
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 25th, 2009

• Google makes its AdWords more local with local extensions
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 24th, 2009

• No Founds, no one to acquire..SearchMe takes a drive offline
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 24th, 2009

• Live Updating search from Twitter makes way through a widget
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 24th, 2009

• Twitter Police baton charges spammers
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 24th, 2009

• Bubble Motion blasts a new round with $6 Million in funding
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 24th, 2009

• PayPal makes its platform go global, has Microsoft’s Endorsement to begin with
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 24th, 2009

• Zivity makes a splits business, launches Top Fans
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 24th, 2009

• In Text Ad Network, Kontera raises $15.5 Million in third round of funding
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 24th, 2009

• CellScope, researchers at Berkeley take lab equipment Mobile
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 23rd, 2009

• ChaCha raises $4 Million in latest round of funding
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 23rd, 2009

• SmokinApps: A showcase for the best Apps for your mobile device
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 23rd, 2009

• Toggl makes sure you waste no time in Time Management
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 23rd, 2009

• 5min raises $7.5 Million, do they have a video on How To raise funds?
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 23rd, 2009

• Another round of layoffs coming to AOL? (rumor)
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 23rd, 2009

• Questioon: Google your queries or ask real question from real people
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 23rd, 2009

• Tweetmondo lets you find Twitter users in your locality
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 23rd, 2009

• Sam Raimi to bring World of Warcraft to the cinemas
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• Mobile Radio streaming service, FlyCast raises $2.1 Million
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• YouTube Insights lets you share how your video is performing on the web
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• Amazon set to grab Zappos for $847 Million
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• Cuil is not yet out of the race, plans a comeback…. we are waiting
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• Edicy lets you create a professional website with mere clicks of a mouse
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• Xing takes its fight with LinkedIn to next level Launches OpenSocial Apps
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• A Billion views in a month, that’s pretty good for Facebook Video
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• Yahoo has its eyes on Email Startup, Xoopit, plans to take them off Yahoo Hot Jobs and Personals
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• They might have lost the Social Networking throne, but MySpace Music continues to thrive
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• Another Webmail to have an address at and this time it’s coming from MySpace
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 22nd, 2009

• YouTube is definitely working at monetizing its Video Platform
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 21st, 2009

• Yahoo to lessen all those irritating ads, plans to invest in branding
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 21st, 2009

• Yahoo to launch its new homepage after a year of labor, it better be worth it
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 21st, 2009

• Ning continues to score high with funds, raises another healthy sum
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 21st, 2009

• Online Presentation service, SlideRocket raises $5 Million
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 21st, 2009

• Online Presentation service, SlideRocket raises $5 Million
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 20th, 2009

• YouTube adds 3D experience to videos
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 20th, 2009

• Prezi impresses investors, raises funds as Jack Dorsey joins in as Advisor
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 20th, 2009

• MySpace falls prey to phishing attack.. as scammers exploit a security flaw in MySpace
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 20th, 2009

• Candy.com selling Candies, don’t worry they aren’t for $3 Million!
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 20th, 2009

• Twitter gets media coverage worth $48 Million..without paying a dime
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 20th, 2009

• Beterz lets you place bets on any sports there is
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 20th, 2009

• Digg: Redirecting users to Digg homepage is how DiggBar driving users mad
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 19th, 2009

• iZaRia: Find, share and download Music for free
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 19th, 2009

• Amazon removes books from Kindles, does owning real books differ from owning digital?
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 18th, 2009

• Sony shows the door to 41 employees, plans to make more cuts by next year
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 17th, 2009

• Now it’s people who want the Internet Explorer 6 dead
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 17th, 2009

• FlyChat, the latest iPhone App lets you make friends with strangers
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 17th, 2009

• Firefox fixes security vulnerability with update
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 17th, 2009

• Warner Bros. acquires Midway Games for $49 Million and 135 layoffs
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 17th, 2009

• Clikthrough bags $1 Million for interactive music videos
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 17th, 2009

• Get a hold of all those medical records, scan and upload them on Google Health
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 16th, 2009

• Bit.ly takes the responsibility to warn about Shortened Malicious links shared on Twitter
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 16th, 2009

• Google Docs working upon a redesign: We just want better features have no issues with simplicity
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 16th, 2009

• Mozilla to help Add-On Developers: Launches Contributions
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 16th, 2009

• MySpace: Leader in Entertainment…………it Was
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 16th, 2009

• Palm Pre realizes it needs more apps, opens Mojo SDK to anyone who can develop an app
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 16th, 2009

• Google using Twitter: Promoting Google Books
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 16th, 2009

• Owen Van Natta doesn’t want MySpace to be a stew of everything on Web
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 16th, 2009

• Viadeo raises $5 Million, plans to boost growth
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 16th, 2009

• Twitter has high expectations: Might grab $140 Million by next year and a Billion by 2013
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 15th, 2009

• iPhone gets Location from Google on Mobile Web
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 15th, 2009

• Microsoft’s Laptop Hunters ads have driven Apple crazy
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 15th, 2009

• Nimbuzz: Updated App for the iPhone and a new desktop client for Macs
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 15th, 2009

• SpinVox: "We are offering Stock for salary this Summer"
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 15th, 2009

• BlackBerry and Android Phones to get Google Voice apps
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 15th, 2009

• Facebook grows past 250 million users worldwide
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 15th, 2009

• FriendFeed opens hunting season with Duck Hunt Theme
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 15th, 2009

• Microsoft gets Federated Media to team with Bing, brings BingTweets
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 15th, 2009

• Google Friend Connect adds support for 47 Languages, gets friendlier
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 14th, 2009

• GigaTribe partners with DivX to bring Video Streaming to your browser
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 14th, 2009

• CancelAds: Lets visitors view web pages without ads while publishers make money of impressions
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 14th, 2009

• Generate adds and additional $2 Million to its first round
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 14th, 2009

• Upgrade your IE6 to a newer browser if you need to watch YouTube videos
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 14th, 2009

• Gmail clears Tasks, puts it out of Labs
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 14th, 2009

• Third round brings $8.3 Million for Outspark
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 14th, 2009

• Online Marketing Firm, Defition6 gets $15 Million in funding
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 13th, 2009

• Mixpo welcomes former Microsoft Sales and Marketing Exec, Bill Shaughnessy to its Board of Directors
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 13th, 2009

• MyBlackBerry is BlackBerry’ Social Network (for complains)
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 13th, 2009

• If it’s a diagram you need to draw, Creately can help do so easily
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 13th, 2009

• KIDO’Z: The Web Environment for kids to surf the Web
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 13th, 2009

• Gmail gets Verified Accounts Key to stop phishing
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 13th, 2009

• Vindicia raises $7.5 Million for its Payment management software
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 13th, 2009

• More investment from Russia as DST buys $100 Million of Facebook Common stock
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 13th, 2009

• Another exec leaves Google to join Twitter
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 13th, 2009

• MySpace: Fox International Channels, please look after out International Ad Operations
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 13th, 2009

• Bride$hare makes sure getting Married doesn’t cost you much
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 10th, 2009

• PeopleBrowsr brings Real Time Search as well
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 10th, 2009

• Bing grows past Yahoo to climb to No.2. Microsoft is finally got its Search on right track
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 10th, 2009

• BrideTide: The Digg for Everything about Weddings
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 10th, 2009

• Twitter’s desktop client, Tweetdeck raises $3.2 Million in funds
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 10th, 2009

• TokBox laying off half its staff (50%)
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 10th, 2009

• Office 2010: The Movie without a Stellar Star cast
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 9th, 2009

• Google Image Search now lets you find images with Creative Commons License
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 9th, 2009

• CoTweet releases Public beta of its Real Time Business Collaboration platform Twitter, raises $1.1 Million
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 9th, 2009

• Oodle brings its classifieds to Twitter
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 9th, 2009

• Qik bags $5.5 Million, it’s all growth for Qik
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 9th, 2009

• Best Buy and TiVo join hands to see each other through the tough times
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 9th, 2009

• BlackBerry Apps World crosses 2,000 apps mark, still miles away from the App Store
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 9th, 2009

• StumbleUpon’s URL Shortener; Su.pr is out of Beta. Add one more to the countless already!
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 8th, 2009

• Here comes the Fan Box from Facebook, I bet MySpace will enjoy this
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 8th, 2009

• HTC Embraces the 3.5mm Jack for audio, at last
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 8th, 2009

• Amazon selling Kindle 2 for $299. Is Anyone waiting for a further cut in price
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 8th, 2009

• Jolicloud bags $4.2 Million in Series A
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 8th, 2009

• Palm Pre to get HD Videos, Thanks to Kazaa (perhaps)
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 8th, 2009

• $50 Million coming Quantcast way in the third round
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 8th, 2009

• VideoUp lets you record videos from iPhone 3GS and upload them to Facebook
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 8th, 2009

• Skyfire gets a new CEO: Travelocity’s Jeffrey Glueck
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 8th, 2009

• Google has all it takes to trouble Microsoft and this time it’s Chrome OS
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 8th, 2009

• A better place to search Android Apps: AndroLib
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 7th, 2009

• Amazon gets after Mobile Apps using its Data. Delicious Library gets the hammer
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 7th, 2009

• The Print Blog will no more be printing
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 7th, 2009

• Rackspace suffers another outage. Where’s reliability?
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 7th, 2009

• Dick Costolo; Founder and CEO of Feedburner leaves Google
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 7th, 2009

• Google is confused about offering Standard Edition of Google Apps
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 7th, 2009

• People Media acquired by Match for $80 Million
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 7th, 2009

• China bans Facebook, Twitter: Why? Maybe to suppress reports on riots, the riots themselves.. or just for the heck of it
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 7th, 2009

• Google moves ahead of the Beta: Pulls the label off Gmail, Gtalk, Docs and Calendar
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 7th, 2009

• Yahoo Search Pad going live tomorrow
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 7th, 2009

• SubmitStartup: The Startup Blogs Directory
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 6th, 2009

• Talking Points Memo gets funding from marc Andreessen
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 6th, 2009

• Hulu starts showing ABC content, begins with Grey’s Anatomy
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 6th, 2009

• CompuServe Classic takes a bow after 30 years in service
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 6th, 2009

• Google modifies Image Search’s Safe Search Option
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 6th, 2009

• Techfuga becomes Rip Van Winkle, takes a nap for a couple of months
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 6th, 2009

• Yahoo brings its Reorg to Europe: James Tipple named its new Marketing Director
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 6th, 2009

• AdLink Media finally goes to Hi_media
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 6th, 2009

• Twitter disables user accounts… Oops that was a mistake!
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 6th, 2009

• Twittospheric: Your Twitter in in Real Time
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 6th, 2009

• Robo.to: Where you write a status once and its shared everywhere
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 3rd, 2009

• The Pirate Bay will make us $40 Million a month: Says its bidder
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 3rd, 2009

• The Macs are safe from the Green Dam.. but that won’t last long I bet
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 3rd, 2009

• Google changes layout: Faster page loads mean more revenue.. forget the smaller logo
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 3rd, 2009

• Apple rejects Start Mobile’s app.. because it finds Obama’s Hope ‘Ridiculing Public Figures’
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 3rd, 2009

• Tweetmeme continues to improve itself
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 3rd, 2009

• Things getting better for Authorize.net after hours of outage
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 3rd, 2009

• And now Search on FriendFeed is Real Time too
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 2nd, 2009

• China: Green Dam is Inevitable, we only Postponed it
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 2nd, 2009

• Evite into Re-org, lays off 9 employees
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 2nd, 2009

• Google App Engine down for hours now
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 2nd, 2009

• Bling Nation raises $8 Million
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 2nd, 2009

• Gizmodo and Engadget bring everything about Gadgets to Gdgt
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 2nd, 2009

• YouTube now lets you upload up to 2GB files, lets you link and embed HDs directly
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 2nd, 2009

• Microsoft’s Bing putting Tweets in Search Results.. talk about real-time-ness coming to search
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 2nd, 2009

• MySpace is done with layoffs for now.. changes Logo
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 2nd, 2009

• The New Facebook App for the iPhone will be loaded with more features
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 2nd, 2009

• Create Websites easily with Moogo
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 1st, 2009

• 5 Million downloads in 24 Hours for Firefox 3.5
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 1st, 2009

• Cognitive Match raises funds in Series A
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 1st, 2009

• Gmail gets drag and drop and other features
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 1st, 2009

• MojoPages bags $5 Million in Series A
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 1st, 2009

• StyleCaster raises $4 Million in Series A
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 1st, 2009

• Dial Directions acquired by Sakhr Software to bring Real Time Voice Translation to mobiles
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 1st, 2009

• Twitter makes changes to its interface: Easier to connect with Tweeples
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 1st, 2009

• MySpace continues to lose execs: SVP Engineering Allen Hurf calls it quits
  Sardar Mohkim Khan - July 1st, 2009